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These pairs can briefly bind together following high-energy collisions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

He made up for this outbreak of separatism by lobbying, before and after the war, to dig the Erie Canal, which would bind the interior and the coast of the country together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The existing contracts in F1 bind the FIA, teams and commercial rights holder together only until 2030.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The big bet colleges made on computer science by hiring faculty and building facilities is now putting them in a bind as they look to pivot amid declining student demand.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

And at last she said in a whisper, “My mother did not bind them, since I was sold so young. But the girl’s feet I will bind—the younger girl’s feet I will bind.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

But Haitians understand the horror of zombies to be one of dispossession, a curse enacted by enslavers that binds victims to mindless servitude, denying them liberation in the afterlife.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

But “when it’s done well, it really binds, because they are thinking, alive things; they are. That’s our job to animate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Watch: The Prince of Wales says Sir Kevin "binds and glues communities together"

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

The first binds while the channel is closed, making it more likely to open.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

“I shudder to think what that means. But perhaps it will limit Kronos’s power. For a time, at least, he is confined to a human form. It binds him together. Hopefully it also restricts him.”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

In this bound form, the gas appears to be unavailable for the reaction needed to manufacture the drug.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

In football's savage, reactive world, a deserved defeat at home to a team ranked outside the world's top 50 is bound to attract scrutiny.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

We won’t know until Tuesday night, and the outcome is bound to be close.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

One of those numbers is bound to be wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“I shall wear my royal costume again in the morning, to board whatever magnificent ship bound for England the clerk has booked passage on,” she thought, giving the cherub a fond pat on the cheek.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The marriages are not legally binding, but viewers see the couples go on honeymoon, before moving in together and navigating their relationships - all while being filmed, almost every day.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Importantly, stronger receptor binding does not automatically establish that muscle regeneration itself has improved.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Instead of binding to claudin-4 receptors on colon cells, BFT attached to the decoy proteins.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Several experts have warned customers not to regard Binance's promise to cover losses as legally binding and said they may need to pursue litigation to recover them.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

It seems like Emily kept most of her poems for herself, binding them into little books nobody knew about.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison